Relaying support in disaster‐affected areas: the social implications of a ‘pay‐it‐forward’ network

Atsumi, Tomohide

doi:10.1111/disa.12067

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“…As the current president of the NVNAD and a researcher at Osaka University, the first author held an emergency meeting of the board members of the NVNAD to discuss what it should do, how, and where (Atsumi 2014;Atsumi and Goltz 2014). The organization dispatched an advance party to the Tohoku region to identify a community in need of volunteer workers.…”

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Collective Tools for Disaster Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Atsumi¹,

Ishizuka²,

Miyamae³

2017

IDRiM Journal

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Disaster recovery requires a vision of the community. This study will introduce the concept of 'symphonicity' which can be defined through the use of a 2X2 table. One axis of the table includes voluntary and pre-voluntary type societies corresponding to intentional and unintentional societies, respectively. The other axis includes the traditional distinction between community and association or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft." Symphonicity, lies in the voluntary-community cell, which can be realized by moving the society either from voluntary-association or from pre-voluntary-community. However, moving a society from one quadrant to the other requires effort and vision. The authors of this study have been conducting fieldwork in Noda Village, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and have identified two possible tools for community recovery. One is a movement to establish a community-radio-station for which various village groups produce their own program; while the other is "Picturescue" in which volunteers picked up tsunami-damaged photos taken before the tsunami and returned them to the original owners. Our participant observations revealed that these two activities motivated the survivors toward Symphonicity: community-radio led survivors to establish a sense of community with local pride, while Picturescue reminded survivors of the community before the disaster, further reinforcing their rationale for choosing to remain in the community. The socio-psychological and practical implications for utilizing such tools for recovery are discussed.

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“…The NVNAD attempted to link all these schools and established a network of volunteers for Noda Village, called "Team North Rias (TNR)" in May, 2011. During the summer and autumn of 2011, disaster volunteers used TNR's local office in Noda Village and regularly visited people living in temporary housing (Atsumi 2014;Nagata 2012). …”

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Collective Tools for Disaster Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Atsumi¹,

Ishizuka²,

Miyamae³

2017

IDRiM Journal

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“…The design charrette regenerated a vision of a "post-disaster utopia" by encouraging residents to demonstrate confidence and courage in post-disaster reconstruction. The phrase "post-disaster utopia" refers to a phenomenon that occurs after a recent disaster when local residents are in the process of helping one another and a large group of outsiders arrives to help the residents overcome difficulties [30,31]. However, this phenomenon does not last long.…”

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Design Charrette as Methodology for Post-Disaster Participatory Reconstruction: Observations from a Case Study in Fukushima, Japan

Zhang

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:Although there has been a growing body of literature on post-disaster participatory reconstruction, a shared understanding on a participatory approach is insufficient. A design charrette is a participatory planning that is particularly suitable for situations in which multidisciplinary professionals and non-professional stakeholders collaborate to accomplish target tasks in a short period of time. The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of design charrette as a methodology in the context of post-disaster reconstruction in Japan. This will be achieved through a participatory observation on a design charrette in Minamisoma City, Japan, after the Fukushima accident. The charrette includes the participation of multiple stakeholders in intercultural, intergenerational and interdisciplinary exchanges. The contributions and constraints of the charrette are analyzed on the basis of the authors' observation, and a strategy to improve post-disaster reconstruction charrette is thereby proposed. This study shows that the charrette is a useful method for communication and collaboration in the post-disaster context. Furthermore, it also demonstrates that assuring the participation of all key stakeholders, improving the training of participants and introducing resource analysis during the charrette's preparatory stage are the essential conditions for the legitimacy and policy compliance of the final result.

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“…“Pay-it-forward” is an expression in which a recipient of an act of kindness reciprocates by repaying this kind act to someone else rather than to the original benefactor [15]. This concept was crisply captured by author Lily Hardy Hammond as early as 1916, when she famously wrote in her book, In the Garden of Delight [16], “You don't pay love back; you pay it forward.” Undergirding the motivation to pay it forward is the feeling of indebtedness for the help that one has received [17]. In the context of disasters, Atsumi (2014) and Daimon (2018) demonstrated that survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 who had received help were more likely to render help by volunteering to help out in future disasters [17, 18].…”

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“…This concept was crisply captured by author Lily Hardy Hammond as early as 1916, when she famously wrote in her book, In the Garden of Delight [16], “You don't pay love back; you pay it forward.” Undergirding the motivation to pay it forward is the feeling of indebtedness for the help that one has received [17]. In the context of disasters, Atsumi (2014) and Daimon (2018) demonstrated that survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 who had received help were more likely to render help by volunteering to help out in future disasters [17, 18]. According to Atsumi (2014), these survivors seemed to be relieved by volunteering to assist in other disaster events [17].…”

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The influence of past experiences on future willingness to perform bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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BackgroundThe influence of past familial experiences of receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and medical help in various cardiac arrest and nonfatal cardiac events toward willingness to “pay it forward” by helping the next cardiac arrest victim was explored.MethodsUsing a validated questionnaire, 6248 participants were asked to rate their willingness to perform bystander chest compression with mouth-to-mouth ventilation and chest compression-only CPR. Their past familial experiences of receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and medical help in various cardiac arrest and nonfatal cardiac events were also recorded.ResultsKruskal-Wallis test with post hoc Dunn’s pairwise comparisons showed that the following were significantly more willing to perform CPR with mouth-to-mouth ventilation: familial experience of “nonfatal cardiac events” (mean rank = 447) vs “out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with no CPR” (mean rank = 177), U = 35442.5, z = −2.055, p = 0.04; “in-hospital cardiac arrest and successful CPR” (mean rank = 2955.79) vs “none of these experiences” (mean rank = 2468.38), U = 111903, z = −2.60, p = 0.01; and “in-hospital cardiac arrest with successful CPR” (mean rank = 133.45) vs “out-of-hospital arrest with no CPR” (mean rank = 112.36), U = 4135.5, z = −2.06, p = 0.04. For compression-only CPR, Kruskal-Wallis test with multiple runs of Mann-Whitney U tests showed that “nonfatal cardiac events” group was statistically higher than the group with “none of these experiences” (mean rank = 3061.43 vs 2859.91), U = 1194658, z = −2.588, p = 0.01. The groups of “in-hospital cardiac arrest with successful CPR” and “in-hospital cardiac arrest with transient return of spontaneous circulation” were the most willing groups to perform compression-only CPR.ConclusionPrior familial experiences of receiving CPR and medical help, particularly among those with successful outcomes in a hospital setting, seem to increase the willingness to perform bystander CPR.

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Relaying support in disaster‐affected areas: the social implications of a ‘pay‐it‐forward’ network

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Collective Tools for Disaster Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Collective Tools for Disaster Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Design Charrette as Methodology for Post-Disaster Participatory Reconstruction: Observations from a Case Study in Fukushima, Japan

The influence of past experiences on future willingness to perform bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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